Brief Life History of Mary Martha
When Mary Martha Hooper was born on 6 August 1869, in Tuckasegee, Jackson, North Carolina, United States, her father, Rev. William Burke Hooper, was 47 and her mother, Susannah Emmaline Slatton, was 36. She married John Newton Rogers on 22 September 1888, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Valleytown, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States in 1920 and Wilson, Wilson, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 3 January 1916, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in David Rogers Cemetery, Cullowhee, Jackson, North Carolina, United States.
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- Mary * Rogers in household of John Rogers, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Mathary Hooper - birth-name: Mary Marthary Hooper
- Mary Hooper, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): occupational name for a cooper, someone who fitted wooden or metal hoops on wooden casks and barrels, or a barrel-maker, from Middle English hoper, an agent derivative of hop ‘hoop, band’. Compare Cooper .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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